this is the craziest police shooting yet

Before cell phones, the cops would have claimed he resisted arrest and was perceived as a violent threat to them. I'm glad these pigs can actually be held accountable thanks to footage such as this. Even still, who knows if charges will be laid or justice will be served. Cops still get heavily favoured in the courts and get away with lies/coverups frequently.

That was disturbing.

Q: Why did you shoot me?

A: I don't know.

The cop himself probably does not know why he pulled the trigger. His finger was on the trigger (it should NOT have been) and he had a muscle spasm or something. He was way too close on the edge even though there was no life or death threat present.

Thank God he was a poor shot and only hit the guy once in the leg after 3 shots. He should be convicted.

looks like this story was completely fabricated....where is the video of the shot being fired?

reality hurts wrote:

looks like this story was completely fabricated....where is the video of the shot being fired?

and if it is not fabricated then it is really really CRAZY. Isn't it?

How will conservaturds justify this one?

1. The Cop who shot him was black.

2. The guy was released after 4 hours in the hospital with a minor leg wound.

3. The police department already says the Black Officer was in error, and it was an accident.

They should probably FIRE the black cop, heck they should have never hired him in the first place.

Look for this story to be gone by tomorrow. Can\'t really blame whitey.

I'm all for prosecute the cop on this one. That's kinda bs.

Police department calls it an accident?!?!?! So if I go and shoot people I can say it's an accident and I'll walk away free? Highly disturbing!!

Just read another article that stated the police fired 3 shots. Bro..seriously what in the...?

Last20yearsretired wrote:

Police department calls it an accident?!?!?! So if I go and shoot people I can say it's an accident and I'll walk away free? Highly disturbing!!

1 shot could possibly (tho extremely remote chance) be an accident. But he fired 3 shots!! And the PD is defending his actions by calling it an accident!! I guess the next ISIS attack is an accident too

affirmative times wrote:

1. The Cop who shot him was black.

Darn, I got my hopes up for a second. This is a non-story, let's move on.

In all the hysteria, the point is missed, in a country this size and this problematic in terms of civility( and apparently getting worse) , cops are going to fvck up and shoot a few pretty innocent people. Where civility is most lacking , in the violent jungle, this will happen more. Either you don't try to tame the Jungle and hope it tames itself and not spread, or deal with some blue human failures.

Fwiw I am a republican and I feel a lot of the police shootings that BLM has their panties in a wad about are in fact justified. I do not see how this one could be and would not fault BLM being livid.

That being said cops are very jittery right now because there are stories everyday now about cops being shot.

Black person was shot, so I'm sure they will start digging into his history for any minor infraction and then justify the shooting because he is a "thug"

Black Lives Don't Matter wrote:

How will conservaturds justify this one?

The law abiding therapist was not properly armed to defend himself...

Cop should be charged with attempted murder.

Common sense. wrote:

In all the hysteria, the point is missed, in a country this size and this problematic in terms of civility( and apparently getting worse) , cops are going to fvck up and shoot a few pretty innocent people. Where civility is most lacking , in the violent jungle, this will happen more. Either you don't try to tame the Jungle and hope it tames itself and not spread, or deal with some blue human failures.

Yes, they will shoot a few innocent people. But did you watch the video? This one is unbelievable.

The point that is really missed is not that this happens, but that COPS DO NOT SEE ANY JUSTICE BECAUSE THEY WORK THE SYSTEM. That is the greater injustice.

The fact that this story hasn't blown up and that there isn't a hashtag shows that BLM makes things only about white vs. black. If I am correct, their whole argument is police officers (no matter what color) are being too violent against blacks. However, the cop has to be white for them to care. This is BY FAR the worst of all of the recent shootings. The guy was lying on the ground with his hands up, not resisting arrest, there was no report of anyone with a gun going in to it, really no reason to pull the gun out at all. Plus there was an autistic kid with him. There isn't a way to defend the cops actions. BLM will try to say this is different and come up with a million different excuses as to why it's different (classic GOP tactic with the voter ID laws). They can't, and it shows the hypocrisy of this group, they need a strong leader from the black community (like the civil rights movement had MLK) to unify their movement and rid it of the hypocrisy and violence (not all members are violent, but there is a decent amount).

This also makes them just as bad as the white people who defend the killer cops, they are essentially giving the black cop a free pass because he is black. It's like all of the races don't care if one of their own does anything bad, but as soon as someone of the other race does something, it's the worst thing in the world. This is also a problem with cops, they protect their own no matter what. Horrible and hypocritical on all sides.